"олух" meaning in Russian

See олух in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ˈoɫʊx]
Etymology: Per Vasmer from во́лух (vólux), from вол (vol, “ox”), i.e. initially воло́вий пасту́х (volóvij pastúx, “ox shepherd”). Dismissed by Chernykh. Per Chernykh akin to волхв (volxv) (note о́лух царя́ небе́сного (ólux carjá nebésnovo)). Alternatively from Old East Slavic *оглухъ (*ogluxŭ), whence Ukrainian оглух (ohlux, “someone hard of hearing”), due to association between глухова́тый (gluxovátyj, “hard of hearing”) and глу́пый (glúpyj, “stupid”). Attested since 1769. Etymology templates: {{inh|ru|orv|*оглухъ}} Old East Slavic *оглухъ (*ogluxŭ) Head templates: {{ru-noun+|о́лух|a=an}} о́лух • (ólux) m anim (genitive о́луха, nominative plural о́лухи, genitive plural о́лухов) Forms: о́лух [animate, canonical, masculine], ólux [romanization], о́луха [genitive], о́лухи [nominative, plural], о́лухов [genitive, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], о́лух [nominative, singular], о́лухи [nominative, plural], о́луха [genitive, singular], о́лухов [genitive, plural], о́луху [dative, singular], о́лухам [dative, plural], о́луха [accusative, singular], о́лухов [accusative, plural], о́лухом [instrumental, singular], о́лухами [instrumental, plural], о́лухе [prepositional, singular], о́лухах [plural, prepositional]
  1. (derogatory) blockhead, dimwit (stupid person) Wikipedia link: Ukrainian language Tags: derogatory Derived forms: олухова́тый (oluxovátyj), о́лух царя́ небе́сного (ólux carjá nebésnovo) [animate, masculine] Related terms: о́луша (óluša) [animate, feminine, masculine]
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      "links": [
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          "олуху#Russian"
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          "о́лухам",
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      "tags": [
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      "source": "declension",
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          "о́лухах",
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          "roman": "oluxovátyj",
          "word": "олухова́тый"
        },
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          "roman": "ólux carjá nebésnovo",
          "tags": [
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              205
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          "english": "\"Oho!\" thought Arkady, and only then he saw in a flash the whole fathomless depth of Bazarov's conceit. \"So you and I are gods, in that case? At least, you're a god, but I suppose I'm one of the blockheads.\"",
          "ref": "1862, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “Глава 19”, in Отцы и дети; English translation from Richard Hare, transl., Fathers and Sons, 1947:",
          "roman": "«Ege, ge!.. — podúmal pro sebjá Arkádij, i tut tólʹko otkrýlasʹ jemú na mig vsja bezdónnaja própastʹ bazárovskovo samoljúbija. — My, stálo bytʹ, s tobój bógi? to jestʹ — ty bog, a ólux už ne ja li?»",
          "text": "«Эге, ге!.. — поду́мал про себя́ Арка́дий, и тут то́лько откры́лась ему́ на миг вся бездо́нная про́пасть база́ровского самолю́бия. — Мы, ста́ло быть, с тобо́й бо́ги? то есть — ты бог, а о́лух уж не я ли?»",
          "translation": "\"Oho!\" thought Arkady, and only then he saw in a flash the whole fathomless depth of Bazarov's conceit. \"So you and I are gods, in that case? At least, you're a god, but I suppose I'm one of the blockheads.\"",
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        "Ukrainian language"
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˈoɫʊx]"
    }
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  "word": "олух"
}
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      "roman": "oluxovátyj",
      "word": "олухова́тый"
    },
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      "roman": "ólux carjá nebésnovo",
      "tags": [
        "animate",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "о́лух царя́ небе́сного"
    }
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        "genitive",
        "plural"
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
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        "table-tags"
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      "source": "declension",
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        "inflection-template"
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      "form": "о́лух",
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        [
          "о́лух",
          "олух#Russian"
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        "nominative",
        "singular"
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          "о́лухи",
          "олухи#Russian"
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      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "о́луха",
      "links": [
        [
          "о́луха",
          "олуха#Russian"
        ]
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      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "о́лухов",
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        [
          "о́лухов",
          "олухов#Russian"
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        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "о́луху",
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        [
          "о́луху",
          "олуху#Russian"
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        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "о́лухам",
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          "о́лухам",
          "олухам#Russian"
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          "о́луха",
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          "о́лухов",
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      "form": "о́лухом",
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        [
          "о́лухом",
          "олухом#Russian"
        ]
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      "form": "о́лухами",
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          "о́лухами",
          "олухами#Russian"
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          "олухе#Russian"
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          "о́лухах",
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      "source": "declension",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "Russian lemmas",
        "Russian links with redundant alt parameters",
        "Russian links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Russian masculine nouns",
        "Russian nouns",
        "Russian nouns with accent pattern a",
        "Russian terms derived from Old East Slavic",
        "Russian terms inherited from Old East Slavic",
        "Russian terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Russian terms with quotations",
        "Russian velar-stem masculine-form accent-a nouns",
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              205
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          "english": "\"Oho!\" thought Arkady, and only then he saw in a flash the whole fathomless depth of Bazarov's conceit. \"So you and I are gods, in that case? At least, you're a god, but I suppose I'm one of the blockheads.\"",
          "ref": "1862, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “Глава 19”, in Отцы и дети; English translation from Richard Hare, transl., Fathers and Sons, 1947:",
          "roman": "«Ege, ge!.. — podúmal pro sebjá Arkádij, i tut tólʹko otkrýlasʹ jemú na mig vsja bezdónnaja própastʹ bazárovskovo samoljúbija. — My, stálo bytʹ, s tobój bógi? to jestʹ — ty bog, a ólux už ne ja li?»",
          "text": "«Эге, ге!.. — поду́мал про себя́ Арка́дий, и тут то́лько откры́лась ему́ на миг вся бездо́нная про́пасть база́ровского самолю́бия. — Мы, ста́ло быть, с тобо́й бо́ги? то есть — ты бог, а о́лух уж не я ли?»",
          "translation": "\"Oho!\" thought Arkady, and only then he saw in a flash the whole fathomless depth of Bazarov's conceit. \"So you and I are gods, in that case? At least, you're a god, but I suppose I'm one of the blockheads.\"",
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      "glosses": [
        "blockhead, dimwit (stupid person)"
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          "derogatory",
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        [
          "blockhead",
          "blockhead"
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          "dimwit",
          "dimwit"
        ]
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        "(derogatory) blockhead, dimwit (stupid person)"
      ],
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        "derogatory"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Ukrainian language"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈoɫʊx]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "олух"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Russian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.